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Mayor Eric Adams set to open ‘tent city’ for asylum seekers
Gothamist
Kathleen Cash at Safety Net Project [at the Urban Justice Center] called the photos of the new shelters “devastating,” describing them as “short-term municipal refugee camps.”
Why New York Is Resorting to Tents to House Surge of Migrants
New York Times
Kathleen Cash, an advocate at the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center, called the pictures of what the centers might look like “devastating.” “Opening short-term municipal refugee camps through a separate city bureaucracy — while the mayor has repeatedly failed to honor the right to shelter, and has announced plans to ‘reassess’ it — is the kind of approach many feared this administration would take,” she said.The NYPD Now Decides What Homeless Encampments Get Swept
City Limits
“This decision is directly in line with his belief in widely discredited broken windows theories of public safety, which have hit poor and working-class Black and Latinx New Yorkers hardest,” said Karim Walker, an organizer and outreach worker with the Safety Net Project [of the Urban Justice Center]. “These sweeps are designed to break spirits and get people out of sight.Want more?
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